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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 29, 1999Baca County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1999, 2:22 PM MDT for Baca County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1999, 2:22 PM MDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1999, 3:10 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Pueblo, CO
Area
Whole counties

County Baca County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 2:38 PM MDTTornado F0Walsh, COAs the supercell moved farther southeast, a tornado began about one mile northeast of a residence and moved over open country and across the Cimarron River in far southeast Baca county. It dissipated over open country near the Colorado - Kansas - Oklahoma bor

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 2:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

443 
WFUS1 KPUB 292018 RRA
TORPUB
COC009-292110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
222 PM MDT TUE JUN 29 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO

* UNTIL 310 PM MDT

* AT 223 PM MDT A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER SAW A TORNADO.  RADAR
  SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF WALSH OR 20 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF WALSH THROUGH
310 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WARNED AREA GO TO SAFETY IN A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST
PROTECTION.  ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A DITCH...
CULVERT OR REINFORCED BUILDING.

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.